נוּס nûwç — to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape

pronounced noos · Strong's H5127 · 161 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 4 stems: Qal (Pa'al), Hiph'il, Hitpolel, Polel

Translated in the KJV as × abate, away, be displayed, flee (away, -ing), put to flight, × hide, lift up a standard.

a primitive root; to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver).

nûwç in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 156×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 55Perfect (qatal) 28Imperfect (yiqtol) 21Sequential perfect (weqatal) 17Infinitive construct 16Participle (active) 10Imperative 5Cohortative 2Infinitive absolute 1Jussive 1

וַיָּנֻ֛סוּ Gen 14:10 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural

And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. (KJV)

לָנ֥וּס Gen 19:20 Infinitive construct

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. (KJV)

וַיָּ֖נָס Gen 39:12 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. (KJV)

Hiph'il 3×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Infinitive construct 1

הֵנִ֛יס Exod 9:20 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: (KJV)

יָנִ֣יסוּ Deut 32:30 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? (KJV)

לְהָנִ֖יס Judg 6:11 Infinitive construct

And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. (KJV)

Hitpolel 1×

Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves

Infinitive construct 1

לְהִתְנוֹסֵ֑ס Ps 60:6 Infinitive construct

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. (KJV)

Polel 1×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

נֹ֥סְסָה Isa 59:19 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular

So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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